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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Orientalism Now, Part IV: The Latest Phase.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author notes that almost without exception, every Orientalist began his career as what?
(a) An Occidentalist.
(b) A philologist.
(c) An epidemiologist.
(d) A biologist.

2. Who wrote The Races of Man?
(a) Robert Knox.
(b) Anquetil-Duperron.
(c) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(d) Simon Ockley.

3. When did the French occupy Algiers?
(a) 1830.
(b) 1850.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1789.

4. What "pilgrim ... claimed insolently that he undertook his voyages [to the Orient] exclusively for his own sake," according to the author in Chapter 2 (169)?
(a) Sir William Jones.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

5. To whom is the letter from T. E. Lawrence written in 1918 that is cited in Chapter 3?
(a) Henri Baudet.
(b) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(c) V. W. Richards.
(d) E. M. Forster.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of whom did Sir Hamilton Gibb say at in his obituary notice in 1962, he "never ceased to seek out in later Islamic literature and devotion" (264)?

2. Who wrote Le Regne Animal?

3. When did the Arab oil boycott take place historically?

4. Who wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?

5. What American diplomat and political scientist does the author discuss in Chapter 1 that wrote the essay "Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy"?

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